Abstract: Going back to the days of the dot matrix printer the entrance of the ink-jets on to the market heralded a victory for those fed up with the noise of their machine-gun like ribbon printers.81% Rating:

Going back to the days of the dot matrix printer (for
those of you who remember what those are) the entrance of the ink-jets on
to the market heralded a victory for those fed up with the noise of their
machine-gun like ribbon printers. Ink-jets were quiet, fast, and produced near
Laser printer quality pages. The only problem was that the ink
cartridges either dried up, or ran out of ink rather quickly.

For the most part Laser printers have remained out of the reach
of the SOHO office crowd and home user because of their price, and size. Of all
the computer peripherals you can get, Laser printers tend to be the biggest and
boxiest of the bunch. However, the move from very popular and inexpensive ink
jet printer is starting to happen as a new class of SOHO laser printers enter
the market.

The Samsung ML-4600 is one such offering,
and the subject of this review. The ML-4600 is a 1200dpi resolution laser
printer capable of 8 ppm in black and white. Based on a 66Mhz RISC chip, it
comes with an integrated 4MB of memory and a 72pin SIMM expansion slot. The
memory can be upgraded to a maximum of 68Mb. The printer connects to the
computer via USB or parallel cable and has a foot print of about
the size of a fax machine.

The ML-4600 comes with CDROM of manual and drivers, parallel printer cable, power cord, quick start guide and start up toner cartridge. USB cable is not included.

Setting up the printer is standard as printers go. Once the
toner cartridge has been installed (it comes with one that lasts about 1000
pages) in the bay, the printer is connected to the computer via the USB or
parallel cable and the drivers are installed. The printer has all of its manual
on the driver CD in PDF format, and only a quick start poster is
included.

Once the drivers have been installed its
time for a test print to see if every thing is well, which it should be of
course.